Children taught skills to monitor and control their anger and other emotions improved their classroom behavior and had significantly fewer school disciplinary referrals and suspensions, according to a ...

Raising children today that can resist temptation and delay gratification is a bigger challenge than ever before. Temptations abound! According to Walter Mischel, the author of the famed Stanford ...

A child's success in his or her 30s in measures of health, wealth and more can be predicted by how well they can control their impulses as early as age three, says a new study, published today in ...

A child's success in his or her 30s in measures of health, wealth and more can be predicted by how well they can control their impulses as early as age three, says a new study, published today in ...

As the mother of a 17-month-old child, I am quickly learning that self-control skills do not come naturally to children. Although it can be comical at times, I often find myself horrified when my ...

Thanks to Leonard Edwards for his article “Let’s outlaw spanking young children in California” (Opinion section, Dec. 23). People argue, “I was spanked as a child and I turned out fine.” Spanking ...

With almost near-constant bombardment from the sights and sounds of the internet, you might assume that today's children want everything 10 minutes ago. But research suggests that generation Z can ...

Raising children today who can resist temptation and delay gratification is a bigger challenge than ever before because temptations abound! According to Walter Mischel, the author of the famed ...